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vUNTTED STATES PATENT CFFTCE.

YDANIEL J. CAMPBELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,'ASSIGNO'R TO THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, OF NEWARK, YNEl/V JERSEY.

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SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,115, dated Novemberv 6, 1900.

' Application filed June 9, 1896. Serial No. 594,842. ydie model.)

To all whom it may concern: this flap 5 may extend to the top of the box Be it known that I, DANIEL J. CAMPBELL, a or a less distance than shown. citizen of the United States, residing at New Projecting inward from the flap 5, so as to York, county of NewYork, and State of New lie between the cigarettes, are one or more 55 5 York, have invented certain new and useful vertical partitions 6(two being shown in the Improvements in Boxes, fully described and present case,) dividing the cigarette-boxintoa represented in the following specification and central compartment containing four cigathe accompanying drawings, forming a part rettes and two end compartments which conof the same. f tain three cigarettes each, these partitions 6 6o Io The object of the present invention is to being formed, preferably, by cutting and provide a simple and cheap paper or pastebending inward a portion of the 'liap 5. It board box of that class now in common use will be understood, however, that these parfor carrying cigarettes or similar articles in titions may be formed otherwise, as byattachthe pocket, and especially to provide a coning suitable pieces of materialv to the inner 65 r 5 struction by which the cigarettes or other arside of the iiap.

ticles remaining in the box shall be sup- The box-blank from which thebox is made ported in proper position for display and conis shown fully in Fig. 4 with the partitions 6 venient removal after one or more are withstruck up from the body, and this box-blank drawn. forms a part of the invention. 7o zo To thisl end the invention-consists in vari- The box a is inclosed within a tube or slide ous features of construction andan improved b, as usual, which, as shown in Fig. 2, inbox-blank for making boxes of this class, all closes the entire box and holds the fiaps 3 and of which will be understood from a detailed 5 in position. description of a construction embodying the It will be seen that by my improved box 75 25 same in the preferred form, which descripone or more cigarettes will be held properly tion will now be given in connection with the in their erect position in the box, notwithaccompanying drawings, forming a part of standing the removal of the other cigarettes, this specification, and the features forming thus enabling a box to be used which is of the invention then specifically pointed out in greater width than the length of the ciga- 8o 3o the claims. rettes, while at the same time the cigarettes In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective are always in convenient position for review ofafullcigarette-box embodying myinmoval and properly exposed. The box is vention in the preferred form opened for the also strengthened against compression flatremoval of the cigarettes. Fig. 2 is a section wise, which is liable to injure the cigarettes. 85 35 on the line 2 of Fig. 1, showing the box closed. ItY will be understood that the invention is Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 of Fig. not limited to boxes of paper or pasteboard, 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the box-blank. although especially adapted for such boxes, Fig. 5 shows a section on the line 5 of Fig. 4. but that it is applicable also to boxes of other Referring to said drawings, the box proper material. 9o 4o consists of the body a, having the side flaps What I claim is--.

1 2, forming the side edges of the box, the l. A slide-box for cigarettes and similar end flap 3, forming .the top panel and prefersmall articles having a flap extending over ably extending downward over the cigarettes the front of the box and one orv more partiin the box, so as to form the upperY part of tions arranged edgewise to the ap and' ex- 95 45 the front of the box, and the end flap 5, which tending longitudinally of and between the forms the bottom panel and front of the box, articles in the box, in combination with a this flap 5 preferably extending a little more cover-slide, whereby the articles are prethau one-half the height of the cigarettes, as vented from falling over sidewise after some shown, so as to leave the printed trade-mark of the articles have been removed, substanzoo 5o on the cigarettes exposed when the ap 3 is tially as described. raised. It will be understood, however, that 2. Box a having the side iaps 1, 2, acoverap 3 closing the top and a part of the front of the box, flap 5 closing the bottom and a part of the front of thel box, and one or more partitions G extending inwardly from the flap 5 and between the articles in the box, in combination with a cover-slide b, substantially as described.

3. Box-blank c! having the side projections J, 2, flaps 3, 5 at the opposite ends of the box and portions (5 of the Hap 5 out to form partitions within the box when the blank is folded, substantially as described.

4. In a slide-box, the combination Withthe cover-slide, of the box operating,l therein formed of a single piece of sheet material and embodying the integral body, end panels, end flaps, and one or more longitudinal partitions turned at right angles to the body DANI-EL J. CAMPBELL. Witnesses:

C. J. SAWYER, J. J. OKEEFFE. 

